Reflective Essay On Literacy

Basic literacy is the ability to read and write, my literacy skills began to develop while I was a small child. It all started with the bedtime stories my mother would read to be. It wasn’t until I got to school that it developed even more as teachers began to teach me how to read and write. I feel that in order to be successful you need to learn how to read and right, that’s why I took pride in learning it. I’m glad that I learned that at a very early age. I notice that to get a good grade on my writings I had to write how my teachers wanted me to write things. In the long run it did pay off because I got good grades on my papers. Obviously you can see that I had to

Can you remember what your teacher taught you back in kindergarten? Chances are she was introducing you to the basics of reading and writing. Literacy is the ability to read and write, and because I did not think I was very good at either of the two, it had never been my favorite thing to do. It wasn’t until my senior year of high school that I had an English class that I actually enjoyed. My teacher was Ms. Holly Eubanks. The past classes had boasted about how good of a teacher Ms. Eubanks was and how, even though she may take a while to grade your papers, she was always trying to help you improve in every possible way she could. On the first day

Literacy embraces reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Integrating all of these into a literacy program is key. Teachers must provide endless and ongoing opportunities for their student to read, write, listen, and speak.

Literacy, as I see it, has a very broad definition that solely depends on the interpreter. I believe literacy is the ability to read and evaluate the content in their own way of thinking, along with the ability to write and display understanding on a story, topic, or your own thoughts. Reading by itself is useless without being able to think past words on a page and develope one’s own conclusion to form the connections to what the author is trying to say. Writing, and how it is displayed, is a useful tool for the audience in which it is being written for. Effective, descriptive writing makes a more enjoyable read and ultimately a better piece of literature.

Since a child going up, literacy was not my strong suit. Literacy throughout my life seem not to cope with me. Later as I grew up, literacy meant to me that it is one’s ability to read, write, and speak. More importantly there is a more meaning of literacy, meaning that not only writing, reading, and speaking, but able to understand, analyze, and communicate with other peoples’ ideas. Soon enough literacy has made an impact on my life, it has been and will be a lifelong process. Literacy will always be with me, starting from my past and ending in my future.

I define literacy as being able to express my thoughts and emotions. I know everyone has different opinions and emotions. Therefore, everyone will write differently and read in a different pace. Also, everyone likes different types of books, for example fiction or nonfiction. As a result, everyone’s literacy journey is unique. Everyone has a different definition when it comes to literacy which is what makes it special. Some prefer to read and others prefer to write. It all depends on personal preference.

Literacy is fundamental to all areas of learning from an early age, as it unlocks access to the wider curriculum. Being literate increases opportunities for pupils in all aspects of life and lays the foundations for lifelong learning and work.

The earliest memory of learning was in pre-k. There was a rug on the floor with the letters of the alphabet surrounding it, and my classroom even had its own personal restroom. Even though I remember my teachers and my classroom, I do not remember what I learned or how I learned. Learning to read and write is crucial for communication. Learning to read and write is a different journey for everyone; it could be an easy journey or a rough one. My literacy journey started in grade school, then junior high, then high school, and finally college. I do not remember the difficulty of starting to learn to read and write, but I do know that the higher the education, the more challenging it is.

Throughout the course this semester I have learned a lot about writing and my personal writing process and skills. The assignments that stand out and helped me the most were the literacy narrative and the Fine Art essay. I think that these two were the most influential to my writing practice because they both involved topics and styles that I really enjoy writing about. The Literacy Narrative forced me to write in new ways and a new thinking practices that I didn't use before. And the Fine Art of essay was something that I enjoyed writing about and composing it in more of a poetic form and I liked being able to have the option of making my own.

The word literacy is not easily defined. Although most commonly explained as the ability to read and write it takes on many dimensions. Just to say that it is the ability to read has so many paths according to Szwed. The passage brings to point that people have different ways of reading depending on the circumstance that they find themselves in at the present time. For example as used in the passage “ Or a student who shows little aptitude for reading may read Jaws in study hall” this shows how the circumstance can affect both the eagerness to read and the ability to read. Maybe a student is not confident enough to read aloud but can read novels alone and comprehend them fully, or maybe just that the child has no interest in the article or

This Literacy Case Study assesses the understanding and fluency of a fifth grade female student enrolled in one of Alaska’s rural village schools. The participant is an ELL student, with Yupik being her original language. I will discuss within this case study the participant, her prior assessment data, and the assessments I will administer, along with the results and the recommendations for the individual. Finally, I will reflect on both the participant and the professional practice I gained from this experience. This study is meant to analyze the literary progress of the participant at this moment in time, along with provide recommendations to assist in improving on the student’s progress and understanding.

Literacy is a crucial factor in learning any type of information. The ability to read and write is necessary for every person to know. If nobody knew how to read or write our world would be full of moronic people, even worse our world be so tedious and simple. I personally believe the beauty in our world comes from the creativity each individual holds. The creativity people put into their art, dance, music, and writing. Literacy is the backbone for all of these components. Without literacy (being so dynamic and complex as it is) our world would ultimately be doomed. The one thing we as a group rely on for an “escape” is our hobbies which include reading, writing, music, etc. None of which would not be possible without our education on literacy.

I realized that my literacy handicap that I had about a year ago had finally started to improve when I thought it would not be improving at all. From the reading point of view, I just imagined every story in my world, in which I am a side character of some aspect being a first-person resource within the story. As I progressed throughout school I would consistently use this same method for every story. The only time this would become a problem would be if the author would be speaking about their own opinions and thoughts on a subject or a certain idea at hand. In which in that point I try and hold my opinions to the side and put myself into their shoes and create a mental state of mind that they are in during the creation of this writing piece.

Throughout my time writing at the City College of New York, I experienced a slow and dramatic transition to my first semester of this college course. During that time, I've learned from several feedback and lessons from certain peers and my professor. Because of the strict comments written in my drafts by my professor, a few helpful suggestions to include in my writing, and a few miserably failures, I was able to see how my writing and habits have changed during the duration of this course. Back in high school, I was always comfortable writing only five paragraph essays (Introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion), but I've never expected to write something more complex. Here, I was encouraged to include as much detail as I can instead of writing something vague

I wouldn’t say that I am a good writer, and I really don’t like to read books either. Through my years in school I became literate in these two categories. I was and still am not interested in writing, or reading books in my spare time. The only writing I have ever done is for school. Writing just does not interest me, and the only reading I do out of class is reading about sports in magazines, or reading the news, or looking at web pages. I have only read a couple of books on my own, 95% of all the books I have read have been for school. The reason for not writing out of class is probably attributed to the fact that I am a very impatient person, and I have a short attention span. I have no interest in writing and reading so when